Amentum Q3 2025 Earnings Report

Amentum EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.56
• Consensus EPS: $0.53
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.03
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Amentum Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $2.23 billion
• Expected Revenue: $3.51 billion
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$1.28 billion
• YoY Revenue Growth: +66.20%

Amentum Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q3 2025
• Date: 8/5/2025
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 8:30AM ET

Amentum (NYSE:AMTM) provides engineering and technology solutions to address challenges in science, security, and sustainability. It serves various markets, such as energy and environment, space, intelligence, defense, civilian, commercial, and international markets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquatered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Amentum Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: In Q3, Lumentum reported revenues of $3.6 B (+2% YoY), adjusted EBITDA of $274 M (+7% YoY), and free cash flow of $100 M, and raised FY25 guidance on all key metrics.
• Positive Sentiment: The company reduced its net leverage ratio to 3.5×, repaid $450 M of debt, and expects to reach ≤3× leverage by FY26.
• Positive Sentiment: Net bookings reached $3.4 B in Q3, with a book-to-bill of 1× (1.8× including JVs), and backlog of $45 B (3.2× annual revenue).
• Positive Sentiment: Key awards include the $4 B Space Force Range contract, C$1.2 B annual Canadian Nuclear Labs JV, and >$500 M of new intelligence contracts.
• Positive Sentiment: With ~$2.4 B in Energy & Environment revenues (including nuclear), Lumentum is positioned to capture a nuclear market expected to exceed $20 B and potentially double by 2030.

Presentation

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Good morning, and welcome to Lumentum's Third Quarter Fiscal Year twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session and instructions will be provided at that time.

[Operator]

I would now like to turn the call over to Nathan Rutledge, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

[Nathan Rutledge, SVP - Head of IR at Amentum Holdings]

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. We hope you've had an opportunity to read the press release we issued yesterday afternoon, which is posted on our Investor Relations website. We have also provided presentation slides to facilitate today's call. So let's move to Slide two. Please note that this morning's discussion will contain forward looking statements that are subject to important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated.

[Nathan Rutledge, SVP - Head of IR at Amentum Holdings]

I refer you to our SEC filings for a discussion of these factors, including the Risk Factors section of our annual report on Form 10 ks. The statements represent our views as of today and subsequent events may cause our views to change. We may elect to update the forward looking statements at some point in the future, but specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. In addition, we will discuss pro form a financial measures prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S X as well as non GAAP financial measures, which we believe provide useful information for investors. Both our press release and supplemental presentation slides include reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures.

[Nathan Rutledge, SVP - Head of IR at Amentum Holdings]

These pro form a and non GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Our Safe Harbor statement included on this slide should be incorporated as a part of any transcript of this call. With me today to discuss our business and financial results are John Heller, Chief Executive Officer and Travis Johnson, Chief Financial Officer. We are also joined by other members of management, including Steve Barnett, Chief Operating Officer. With that, moving to slide three, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to our CEO, John Hiller.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Thank you, Nathan, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today to discuss our third quarter results and update you on the progress we've made executing our long term strategy. As we entered the last quarter of our first year as a combined company, I'm incredibly proud of the continued momentum across the business. We're seeing benefits from our integration efforts and mission focused portfolio converge with tailwinds from global trends and an improving budget environment, and we're excited about the bright future ahead for Momentum. I want to begin by acknowledging the extraordinary efforts of our team.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Across the globe, Momentum employees are working side by side with our customers, delivering on complex missions with dedication, agility, and excellence. Their commitment is at the heart of everything we do, and it shows in our results. Our team's resilience and innovation have resulted in strong performance for the quarter and have enabled us to provide updated guidance, which reflects underlying organic increases. Key highlights, which Travis will discuss in more detail shortly, include revenues of 3,600,000,000 reflecting 2% growth adjusted EBITDA of $274,000,000 marking 7% year over year growth and free cash flow of $100,000,000 During the quarter, we also successfully completed two divestitures, our Rapid Solutions business, which was originally announced in April, and our non core New Zealand Facilities Maintenance business. These divestitures demonstrate a continued focus on optimizing our core business to align with long term growth priorities.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

As a result of these actions, along with our strong year to date operational performance, we have made significant progress in reducing our net leverage ratio to 3.5 times ahead of our original expectations. Additionally, I am pleased with what we've accomplished on the operational front. We remain on track with our integration plans and have a clear line of sight to achieving at least $30,000,000 in net run rate cost synergies by the end of this fiscal year. Now I would like to take a moment to discuss key global trends as well as updates to the budget and policy environment impacting our market. Please turn to slide four.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

The fiscal year twenty six budget reconciliation bill or the one big beautiful bill, along with recent executive orders, represent generational investments in national security and other critical areas that are well aligned with Momentum's portfolio of advanced engineering and technology solutions. The bill includes $150,000,000,000 in additional defense spending and $133,000,000,000 in supplemental funding for border security, both to be deployed over the next two years. It also contains sweeping investments in NASA's human spaceflight and infrastructure modernization as well as steps to reduce regulatory friction and accelerate execution across enduring mission areas. Let me highlight a few areas where we are excited to continue and expand our advanced solution offerings in an agile and efficient manner to help our customers execute their key mission priorities. Today, we deliver real time detection, tracking, and response solutions that support the warfighters' ability to counter emerging threats, including hypersonic systems through our IRES contract with the Missile Defense Agency.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

With the $25,000,000,000 initial investment in the Golden Dome initiative, The US is doubling down on integrated layered defense, and Amentum is poised to immediately scale our contributions. Next, our teams are delivering unmanned and counter unmanned integration solutions, including advanced sustainment, AI enhanced mission assurance, and real time testing for several key customers With multibillion dollar funding secured for air and sea based unmanned solutions, Momentum is positioned to drive the next evolution of autonomy and aerospace dominance. In the Pacific Region, Momentum is supporting mission preparedness through programs such as iTeams, where we're driving agility and innovating command and control systems for the Department of Defense With billions of dollars aimed at bolstering INDOPACOM's posture, we're ready to continue enabling deterrence. Momentum is at the heart of America's space infrastructure, powering the next era of human exploration and space superiority. Our engineers are modernizing launch vehicle systems, ground infrastructure, and other mission critical facilities that support lunar missions and deep space exploration, Backed by $10,000,000,000 in new funding for NASA's spaceflight and modernization efforts, we're accelerating launch readiness and reinforcing US space leadership.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Next, from AIML enabled decision environments to cyber hardened cloud migration and digital twin infrastructure, Momentum is working with our customers modernizing national security IT for real world applications. The decision to allocate billions for next gen federal infrastructure reinforces what we've known all along. The mission demands leading edge solutions, and Momentum is delivering them. Finally, we are excited about the administration's focus on the future of energy dominance. As demand for reliable baseload power explodes driven by AI, electrification, and geopolitical risk, Momentum is already at work across the nuclear life cycle.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

From advanced reactor engineering to nuclear remediation, we operate the core of US and allied energy security strategies. The administration's May executive orders along with funding in the reconciliation bill aimed to remove regulatory barriers and inject capital into small modular reactors, fuel supply chains, and licensing, areas where Momentum is already moving fast. I'll have more to say about the role we're playing in the global nuclear renaissance shortly, but the key takeaway is this, Momentum isn't preparing to lead. We are leading. Across all of these areas, our work is embedded in today's most important missions, and we're scaling up as our customers and congress prioritize the areas we built our business around.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

We're ready to meet the moment with speed, precision and unmatched technical depth. Let's move on to slide five, highlighting the continued strong demand for omentum's mission focused solutions across our diversified markets. We reported $3,400,000,000 in net bookings this quarter, resulting in a third quarter and a year to date book to bill of one times. As noted before, awards to unconsolidated joint ventures are excluded from our reported book to bill, including Momentum's proportional share of joint venture revenues and bookings, our third quarter and year to date imputed book to bill were 1.8 times and 1.4 times respectively, which highlights the significance of key awards that will generate meaningful earnings and cash flow for years to come. Finally, we ended the quarter with $29,000,000,000 in pending awards and a total backlog of $45,000,000,000 representing 3.2 times our annual revenue.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Our strong bookings this quarter reflect not only growing demand, but also our ability to win in the markets that matter most. We're executing against a high quality pipeline translating into strategic wins, and we remain on track to achieve our $35,000,000,000 submits target. Now let me walk you through some examples from q highlighting this progress. First, we were awarded the $4,000,000,000 Space Force Range contract or SFRC, which deepens our partnership with the US Space Force and significantly expands our presence in space operations. Through this work, Momentum will modernize and maintain range infrastructure supporting launches on both the Eastern and Western ranges.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

The SFRC positions us at the center of commercial and national security space integration, enabling direct relationships with commercial launch providers. It also expands our footprint in Colorado, Florida, and California, three critical nodes of US space activity. Recently, we were notified that this award is being protested. Therefore, it is not included in our third quarter backlog or book to bill results. We are confident in the strength of our bid and look forward to its resolution.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Next, demonstrating our global nuclear leadership momentum through an unconsolidated joint venture was selected to deliver comprehensive nuclear engineering and technology solutions for Canadian nuclear laboratories. This award, which is a continuation and expansion of work we do today, has a six year base and an extension period of up to twenty years and is valued at approximately 1,200,000,000.0 Canadian dollars annually. It underscores Omentum's nuclear solutions and strengthens our position across nuclear energy from environmental remediation and waste management to the advancement of SMR technology. It also reinforces our cross border solutions and supports our broader commercial nuclear growth strategy. Also in the quarter, Momentum secured two new intelligence awards supporting classified customers totaling over $500,000,000 We're proud to support these customers by leveraging a broad range of advanced engineering and technology solutions, including mission critical data modeling and analysis.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Finally, we benefited from over $2,000,000,000 in bookings from on contract growth modifications and extensions from existing customers. While big new awards are exciting, Momentum's significant growth from modifications highlights our ability to win and expand scope across priority areas and validates the value Momentum delivers to our customers every day. While I am proud of these recent awards, I am also excited about what lies ahead. Let's now turn to slide six and take a closer look at the global nuclear resurgence. Momentum brings advanced engineering and technology solutions to some of the world's most complex challenges.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

One of the profound changes shaping our world today is the exponential growth of AI and compute infrastructure. Demand for computing power is skyrocketing due to the rise of autonomous systems and industrial applications supporting manufacturing. This surge boosts energy requirements, accelerating the need for enhanced grid capacity and resilience. In The U. S, local grids face shortages linked to data center expansion.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Globally, the energy trilemma, security, affordability, and sustainability is intensifying. Global electricity demand is expected to increase by 25% by 2030 and double over the next twenty five years. Global data center demand investment is expected to exceed $5,000,000,000,000 through 02/1930. Bringing new nuclear power plants online and extending existing infrastructure is critical to meet this demand. Nuclear power is the only scalable and reliable baseload energy source that can meet these demands.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

With our long history providing engineering solutions to the nuclear industry, including the deployment of new gigawatt power plants and research and design for small modular reactors, Momentum is well equipped to lead as this market continues to grow. Momentum is delivering solutions that fuel the nuclear resurgence across key submarkets. Please turn to Slide seven, which provides a visual overview of our comprehensive nuclear solutions built over more than fifty years. We cover the full life cycle from planning, design and licensing to construction, operations, modernization and life extension and decommissioning. We have deep expertise and an integrated approach to these long term priorities.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

To that end, in May, we opened our Nuclear Center of Excellence in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which will serve as a strategic hub solving the challenges facing the nuclear resurgence through our advanced engineering and technology solutions. While much of our current work focuses on gigawatt reactors, we're increasingly applying that same expertise to next generation nuclear technologies, including SMRs. SMRs provide scalable power with enhanced flexibility and safety features, ideal for data centers and high density compute zones driving the AI revolution. We are deeply embedded in this ecosystem, working with developers and governments across The US, UK, and Europe to accelerate deployment and enhance grid reliability. We support flagship programs like Sizwell C in The UK, new starts in Poland and throughout other European countries and early stage deployments in North America.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

To strengthen our differentiation, we've developed our own solutions, including proprietary software that enables high resolution simulation of reactor physics. This tool is used by regulators and operators worldwide, accelerating the adoption and construction of gigawatt reactors and SMRs. We estimate that the current addressable market for Omentum's nuclear solutions is approximately $20,000,000,000 and based on projections for growth in the market for new builds, we expect it to more than double in size within the next decade. When we think longer term, the market size could experience a tenfold increase by 2050 if estimates for new builds are realized. With the backdrop of growing global demand, a robust pipeline including partnerships with key OEMs and converging policy support, we are executing a strategy to capture a significant share of this fast growing market.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

For gigawatt plants, Momentum delivers full life cycle solutions, including design and regulatory support, program management and life extension. For SMRs today, Momentum is focused on supporting design and regulatory efforts and we are positioned to provide the same solutions that we provide to customers for new gigawatt builds. These same engineering and capabilities are directly applicable to reactor life extensions. In the past five years alone, commitments have been made to prolong the operational lives of more than 60 reactors globally. While it's too early to set long term financial targets, one thing is clear.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Nuclear will be a critical engine of global growth at oMentum. The tailwinds, growing global demand driving policy and technology have aligned to uniquely position omentum for continued leadership. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Travis to discuss our financials in more depth.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. I'm excited to discuss with you today, Amit's strong third quarter performance, the significant progress we made to accelerate our deleveraging objectives and strengthen the balance sheet and to share our updated full year guidance, which, as John mentioned, represents increases for all guidance metrics on an underlying organic basis. Our results highlight the importance and consistency of Momentum's business through what has been a dynamic period for our industry and reflects the continued strength of our execution, disciplined operational focus and progress against our strategic and financial priorities, in particular reducing our net leverage by more than a half turn in our first nine months as a public company. With that, let me walk you through our financial performance on Slide eight. I'd like to again highlight that while our GAAP results provide an accounting view of Omitsum's legacy business, excluding CMS, today's discussion will focus on our non GAAP results compared to the pro form a results from the 2024.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

These figures offer a combined view of the new momentum business and provide performance insights on a more comparable basis. Third quarter revenues of $3,600,000,000 reflect 2% growth and were driven by continued strong demand and year over year increases in digital solutions. Adjusted EBITDA was $274,000,000 reflecting 7% year over year growth and was driven by a 30 basis point increase in adjusted EBITDA margins to 7.7%. Strong operational performance in both segments, along with benefits from our cost synergy initiatives, were catalysts for profit performance in the quarter. Adjusted diluted earnings per share were $0.56 up 10% from a year ago, with revenue growth and strong operating performance more than offsetting higher interest expense.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Moving to our reportable segment results on slide nine. Digital Solutions generated revenues of $1,400,000,000 representing 12% growth. The year over year increase was driven by the ramp up of new contract awards, led by strength in the commercial digital infrastructure market. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $114,000,000 reflecting a 60 basis point increase in adjusted EBITDA margins to 8%, the result of higher revenue volume, favorable contract mix and improved operational performance. Global Engineering Solutions generated revenues of $2,100,000,000 and reflects the expected ramp down of certain historical programs, partially offset by the ramp up of new contract awards and growth on existing programs.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Adjusted EBITDA, which was impacted by the revenue volume, was $160,000,000 and benefited from a 10 basis point increase in adjusted EBITDA margins from strong operational performance. Turning to slide 10 to cover our cash flow performance and capital structure highlights. Third quarter and year to date free cash flow of 100,000,000 and $255,000,000 respectively, were in line with our expectations and reflect strong cash earnings and our disciplined approach to working capital management. Investing activities generated another $275,000,000 in the quarter as a result of $360,000,000 in gross proceeds from the sale of Rapid Solutions and the previously discussed $70,000,000 final net working capital true up payment to Jacobs in connection with the merger. Together, the robust free cash flow performance and investing activity proceeds significantly enhanced our balance sheet position, with ending cash on hand of $738,000,000 and no outstanding balances on our $850,000,000 revolving credit facility.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

The results also drove meaningful progress in reducing our net leverage to 3.5 times, accelerating our path to a more flexible and opportunistic capital deployment posture. In addition, following the expiration of the soft call on our Term Loan B, we repaid $200,000,000 in debt during the quarter without incurring incremental fees. And subsequent to the quarter end, we repaid an additional $250,000,000 As a result of these actions, we will see meaningful reductions in future interest costs and now expect to achieve net leverage of less than three times by the end of fiscal year twenty twenty six. On slide 11, let's now turn to our fiscal year twenty twenty five full year outlook. Based on the strength of our year to date performance and expectations for the fourth quarter, which more than offset impacts from the divestitures John noted earlier, we are raising our full year organic guidance.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

With less than 1% of revenues expected to come from new business, we are increasing revenue expectations to the range of $13,975,000,000 to $14,175,000,000 which at the midpoint reflects a $125,000,000 underlying organic increase. After adjusting for the impact of customer priority shifts, which we continue to estimate at approximately one percent of revenues for fiscal year twenty twenty five and the divestitures, it also represents a 2% increase from strength in the underlying business relative to our original guidance expectations. We continue to expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of $1,065,000,000 to $1,095,000,000 reflecting a $5,000,000 underlying organic increase at the midpoint as well as adjusted EBITDA margins at 7.7% consistent with our year to date performance. We are also raising our outlook for adjusted diluted earnings per share to a range of $2.05 to $2.2 reflecting a $05 underlying organic increase at the midpoint. And finally, we expect free cash flow between $475,000,000 and $525,000,000 which represents an underlying organic increase of 20,000,000 predominantly as a result of divestiture related tax payments expected in the fourth quarter.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Additional key assumptions for our updated guidance are included on Slide 11 in today's presentation posted on our Investor Relations website. Wrapping up on Slide 12. Simply put, Omentum is performing well on all fronts, and we are delivering on both our strategic and financial commitments, all of which is made possible by the dedication and commitment from our talented employees across the globe. As we enter the last quarter and our first year as a combined public company, we remain confident in meeting our fiscal year twenty twenty five financial objectives and are more excited than ever about the future of Fermentum and the long term value it can deliver for customers, employees and shareholders. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Your first question comes from Colin Canfield with Cantor. Please go ahead.

[Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald]

Hey, good morning. Thank you for the question. Maybe starting out on bookings, can you just clarify what the JV adjusted quarterly book to bill was in the quarter? And then maybe talk us through how we should think about your Space Force pipeline as well as your NASA pipeline. So the Space Force contract, well understood, and a key win. But as we think about kind of what's next, it seems like the SOS awards should be coming pretty quickly. So so maybe talk us through those bookings dynamics first.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Hey. Good morning. Sure. I'll this is Travis. I will start with, your bookings question and hand it over, to cover your question on the space, opportunities.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

So the first thing that I'd highlight, is that we're obviously pleased with our awarded book to bill performance in the third quarter, which was one times on a reported basis, also one times on a year to date basis. And to your question specifically about our imputed JV, book to bill, a couple of different things that we did have the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories win. That's an unconsolidated joint venture, which John highlighted in his prepared remarks. And including that award, our imputed book to bill for the quarter was 1.8. So really solid performance there.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

That brings our imputed year to date book to bill to 1.4. And probably the last thing to highlight just from metrics perspective on book to bill, we also highlighted our Space Force win, which is excluded from our book to bill metrics given that it's currently under protest. Obviously, we look forward to that being resolved. But our reported book to bill would have been approximately two in the quarter with that and obviously well over two in an imputed perspective. So really pleased with the business development performance that we've experienced in the third quarter and through the year so far. And with that, maybe I'll hand it over to John.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. Thanks, thanks, Colin. So just following up with your second part of your question. Obviously, we reported the Space Force Range contract award as probably the biggest highlight of the quarter.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

But also when you talk about our pipeline, we see it as the opportunity to not only be a larger supporter for Space Force, but be in a position to also be much closer to commercial space because that's so integrated in that contract. It would put us at the key launch areas where, we'll have the opportunity to work side by side with all the major commercial space launch providers. The second part is that the Golden Dome, as we know, the that's gonna be a huge initiative of this administration over the next few years and likely for the next decade to come as The US puts research and development investing behind this capability. Our position at Space Force as well as Missile Defense Agency, where we have been a key supporter for a long time, puts us in a great position to respond to the upcoming acquisition opportunities. So if you talk about pipeline, really, around the Golden Dome, it's Shield.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

And seeing, first, just winning a position on Shield, our expertise at Space Force and Missile Defense Agency and our decades of experience supporting NASA on rocket design and technology development should put us in a great position to get a key spot on shield and then to support the development initiatives that are gonna come out on shield. So all in all, excited about the pipeline opportunities, the growth opportunities near term over the next three years. And then the last thing I'd say is really NASA. We're excited about where NASA is going. A lot of very positive feedback from this administration and support on human spaceflight, and our role in NASA is critical to supporting that.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

And maybe, Steve, you could hit on just our excitement about what's happening on human spaceflight.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. John, I think, headlined it well. There's a lot of, you know, exciting direction coming out of the new administration. Really, I think most people know we're we are in the thick of preparation for the Artemis two mission.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

Our team at NASA Kennedy making great progress integrating the vehicle, testing out this, of course, will be the first crewed Artemis flight. So mission assurance and flight safety at the forefront of all that we're doing, but we're integrating systems, checking out software, hardware, flight hardware. That work is proceeding exceptionally well, and we're really proud of our team there and how they're working with the agency to prepare for that mission. I think importantly, just if you kind of take account of some of the recent messages coming out, even in recent days coming out of the agency as well as, interim secretary Duffy talking about, hey. We're gonna need things like a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

There's a there's a recognition that, I would say, two key things. Number one, the moon does in and of itself become a very strategic objective. We are absolutely in a second space race, if you will. And so we're very focused on ensuring U. S.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

With our international partners to make sure that we secure that position on the moon. And secondly, that it's, you know, a key, way stop, if you will, to pave the way to go onward to Mars. And so we're excited about the bipartisan support for those missions and the continued priority focus for the nation. And so a lot of great work happening there, and we continue to see good incremental opportunity as we go.

[Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald]

Got it. That's that's great color.

[Nathan Rutledge, SVP - Head of IR at Amentum Holdings]

And then maybe maybe kind

[Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald]

of tying that into the revenue mix in the business and the EBITDA growth building blocks for next year. If we could kind of talk through how we think about conceptually defense and intelligence, right, which is about, you know, 50 or 60% of the business, international, NASA, and call it nuclear. Right? The kind of noncivil civil stuff. So call it maybe three quarters of the business that's that's accelerating in '26 versus the calendar year or calendar week, excuse me, building blocks we got last quarter and any sort of JV dynamics that that impact next year.

[Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald]

Maybe kind of walking through how we think about all that goodness in civil translating to accelerating growth next year, but specifically on an on an EBITDA basis given those dynamics? Thank you.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. Thanks, Colin. First, I'll just talk strategy macro level, and Travis can dive in on that question from a pure financial standpoint. But first of just want to go back. We're really pleased with how the third quarter came together.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

As I said in my prepared remarks, our performance really reflects the continued strength of the business. We're being very disciplined on execution. We're you know, we completed these divestitures that's sharpening our focus on our core strategy. It's really like a Mentum was custom built for this era. Momentum is aligned with these enduring global trends where and well funded priority areas, and it's starting to show up in our results.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

We're accelerating our deleveraging. We got that down to three and a half, and we're on a clear path to meet our commitments. And, you know, keep in mind, you know, Mentum is nine month old public company. And, you know, we set our first year to be focused on integration, laying the groundwork for long term growth, and I think that's exactly what we've done. And we've got strength in our underlying business that we're starting to show up in our pipeline.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Again, $29,000,000,000 of bids awaiting award, a pipeline that looks really strong across key areas that you were touching on as we think about '26. Nuclear is really starting to pick up, and I'd love to talk more about that. We're still, you know, number one in environmental re remediation. There are great opportunities in space. We just talked about defense around systems design, integration, and modernization, leadership area of ours.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

And then we talked about this the last few quarters, the the intelligence community. Our belief that that can be a strong driver, but not probably in '25, but it's doing well. But we really see that as a '26, '27. So when we think about '26, you probably start to see intelligence show up more as well as some of those key priority areas of this administration start to show up in a bigger way in what's happening in our business. You know, we talked about space.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

We talked about the Golden Dome. Talked about UAVs, counter UAVs, talking about the border and our presence at the border where, you know, we've been at the border providing key support to, customs and border protection. I mean, we are we are key, part of the the strategy there to this administration. So, you know, we're seeing all those things really working and the pipeline developing, which should set us up in '26 to see some of these things stand out.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. And then from a financial perspective, Colin, we obviously look forward to providing official f y twenty six guidance in our q four earnings call. But what I will say is that as you hear John talk about, we're really excited about the trajectory of the business. Obviously, there's some revenue dynamics that we've talked about related to the fifty third week JV transitions and then the new impact from the divestitures, which closed in the last week of our third quarter. But they really don't impact the momentum of the underlying organic business at all.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

In fact, we're really excited about kind of our year to date performance both from a margin expansion perspective, 20 basis points year over year. We've reduced net leverage to 3.5 times. We expect that to continue in the fourth quarter, all ahead of schedule. So as we start to look forward to the fourth quarter and into FY 2026, we really made meaningful progress towards our margin expansion and free cash flow growth objectives. So we're confident those will continue as we head into FY 2026.

[Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald]

Got it. That's fantastic color. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. The next question comes from Tobey Sommer with Truist. Please go ahead.

[Analyst]

Hi, all. It's Henry on for Tobey here. Thanks for taking my questions. Just to start with, you know, given the the upcoming end of the the second fiscal year here this quarter, are you expecting, you know, a seasonally high number of kind of budget flush opportunities with the the slow procurement environment, you know, up to up to date so far this year? And are, you know, are you seeing any potential headwinds there around kind of federal contracting officer shortages, seeing some of that money going out by the by the September? Thank you.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. I'd say, we've been very pleased with how the government's kind of you had that transition. Any administration, you you're gonna feel an impact of that as the administration brings in key people, lays out their priorities. The big beautiful bill, you know, came out, provided clarity, provided excitement, provided direction. The leadership at these organizations are in place.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

They're supported by this administration. So, frankly, we're seeing a government that today is working relatively efficiently and, if not even more efficiently because there's a sense of urgency. There's a desire to move things forward in a pace that is probably a little different than what we're used to. So we're we don't expect, that the impacts that we might have seen in previous quarters to to come out in the fourth quarter. I think it's gonna be business as usual.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

The the our customers are focused. They know what they have to do. They're focused on executing that. RFPs are coming out as planned. Awards are coming out generally on time.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Of course, you know, there's there there are still protests, which is just part of the industry, and we're all used to that. So it's nothing new. And, yeah, we would expect fourth quarter to be pretty soft.

[Analyst]

Great. Thanks, Ray. Thanks for that color. And, maybe just a quick on on the Golden Dome opportunity. You know, where where do you see kind of the overall budget or funding opportunities for your kind of pushing the shield area within the whole Golden Globe project?

[Analyst]

And and one of the, you know, the differences or similarities in the ramp timeline of that versus the overall overall project? Thank you.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. Thanks for the question. The, I think the golden dome narrative for us starts with the fact that we are very highly engaged in that mission today and continuing to develop and maintain missile defenses of The US as well for key allies. And our work with the missile defense agency really, in many ways, paves the way for the objectives associated with Golden Dome. Because I think that the headline to think about is the emphasis in Golden Dome is about rapid deployment.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

Rapid deployment of defensive capabilities as part of the Golden Dome initiative. And the good news is that missile defense agency, to their credit, and we as their trusted partner, have been developing a lot of the key technologies in recent years. Boy, there's a lot in the public domain about the hypersonic tracking ballistic space sensor that we've had great RDT and E and, you know, test deployment of that, integrating that capability. We've worked with NBA to develop the integrated digital data environment that's allowed us to do simulation, think digital twins, and integrate, you know, developing new capabilities that will be required for Golden Dome. And we've even pioneered kind of the new ground to space architecture, if you will, that allows us to have rapid decision capability, even things like algorithms that they ought to do pattern recognition, all there.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

So a lot of these underlying enabling technologies we've developed with MDA, and those will become key for Golden Dome. So because of our presence in that market at the center of developing that system today, we think we are gonna be a a great partner working with Space Force and missile defense, as John mentioned in his prepared remarks, to help pioneer Golden Dome and be able to develop and deploy those capabilities. So it's absolutely a big opportunity for us. And the government, to their credit, have already, as you will be aware in reconciliation, devoted $25,000,000,000 to kind of rapid start some of that technology development. So we think those things begin to happen pretty quickly.

[Operator]

Hello, Toby? Toby, are you still there? Thank you. The next question comes from Mariana Perezmora with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

[Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Good morning, Mara.

[Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

So my question is gonna be about nuclear, and it's gonna be a three part question. Number one, could you please remind us, like, how how large is the nuclear exposure for you from a sales perspective, but mostly from an EBITDA perspective? Because you do have some of those contracts that come through through unconsolidate unconsolidated John Betters. Number two, you you highlight the 8% CAGR expected to happen in the four years between '26 and 2030. How much faster Amentum could grow, especially if you're exposed to SMRs or software or upgrades or stuff that could actually grow faster than just, like, nuclear gigawatts?

[Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

And the third one, when we think about this nuclear opportunity and especially on the contribution not just to top line, but mostly through the bottom line, how should we think about the margin contribution and the path towards your 2028 goals?

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. Mariana, you know, we love this subject. Obviously, we highlighted it on the earnings call for a reason. We just think that Momentum is very differentiated in this space. And, you know, because of our expertise across Europe where the European continent has really leaned forward on nuclear where The US has kind of taken a backseat over the past three decades, but there's a lot of excitement here in in The US.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Here here's a couple of things I would say. First, you know, today, our businesses are on the nuclear front in terms of, you know, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, mechanical, civil, data, all types of engineering capability and technical skills, well over $2,000,000,000 in our business. From an a nuclear power standpoint, we are currently delivering on approximately 29 projects across Momentum, across fusion, fuel fabrication enrichment, gigawatt new build, gigawatt life extension, and SMR. We are in capture for over 50 projects, nuclear projects, over the next three years. The market is picking up, and I talked about this in my prepared remarks.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

The investment environment is as best as it's been in The US. And the real opportunity, what we're talking about, the the real excitement, because we're already well embedded in in Europe, and that market has been moving forward. So most much of our work is in Europe. Some of it's in The US. But what we're excited about is the investment environment in The US as well as the president's executive orders, which were about 30 pages long.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

By the way, this was a very detailed guidance that you don't typically see. And the it's just make, all of what's happening is making the economics better for investors. You're getting regulatory streamlining that's supported by bipartisan support. It's driven by our business community, AI hyperscalers, electricity needs. The credit environment and private funding is very positive.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

It's bringing the cost down. And, of course, you know, the need for electricity is indisputable to support our economy, as well as defense sees this as an energy resilience play. There are a lot of interest on defense as well. This is very strong demand. This is not a one, two, or three year cycle.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

This is a debt multi decade long cycle. And, of course, a nuclear power plant, once installed, can operate upwards of seventy years. So see this as each of these projects can be a seventy year project for Momentum. Market is. Obviously, it's happening real time in The US, which means with regulatory approval.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

So for us, it's more focused on a lot of engineering support, regulatory support, but that will build over time into the actual design, construction, and implementation. So this next decade is going to be a lot of activity. And, you know, so energy for us probably you know, I don't Travis probably has the exact numbers, but still well over 500,000,000, and we just see that as the potential to grow substantially over the next five to, frankly, twenty five years. Travis, any Yeah.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

I'll I'll add some color on the financial elements of that. So Margin. Yeah. We previously discussed that around 17% of our annual revenue, $2,400,000,000 $2,500,000,000 come from our energy and environment market overall. Provide some further color on that.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Roughly two thirds of that relates to nuclear remediation and decommissioning, and the remaining third relates to basically all this front end engineering, design, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance, both for government and commercial customers here in The US and abroad. And as you point out, obviously, this you know, the margin profile of this business is accretive from an overall perspective, it's an even bigger contributor from an EBITDA perspective. So as John pointed out, we're really excited about the growth that this can provide for Momentum headed into the future.

[Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

Great. And is it fair to think that you should at least grow in line with the market for that those two thirds of the the 17%?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. I would say based on our position and everything that we've done historically in the nuclear market as, you know, one of the leading project engineering firms across the globe, we don't see any reason why that it shouldn't be the case.

[Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

Thank you so much.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Mhmm.

[Operator]

Thank you. The next question comes from Noah Popodak with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Hey, good morning, guys. How do I think about or square up the total backlog picture, the total pipeline picture, the robust opportunity set that you're describing with the move lower through the year in the funded backlog?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Hey, Doug. Good morning. So as we mentioned and and John talked about and and it's been brought up on previous calls, as the new administration came in, there was obviously impact to the contracting officer workforce. And I think what you're seeing in the funding, dynamic is just kind of the trailing effects of that. We we don't have any concern related to the funded backlog at all whatsoever.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

I'd say it's just timing related, and we're confident that we'll be funded sufficiently to perform our mission critical work going forward.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. And I think the other part that we we mentioned and we've mentioned previously is that Momentum does a lot of JV work in some of our key high growth market areas. And we've been very successful winning some of these JVs that that are not contributing to backlog. And, you know, we're we're real excited about what they mean to our business. So we talked about a backlog or a book to bill this quarter of one point o.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

But if you included our JVs, our imputed book to bill would have been 1.8. And that's, you know, that's happened in previous quarters already, and we see a pipeline of these types of opportunities that will drive meaningful EBITDA and cash flow, but just don't show up in our backlog. So we're, you know, we're winning. We're winning these large JVs. They're meaningful, and it's just part of the dynamics of the markets we play in in a u unique aspect of momentum.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

And we'll continue, you know, to talk and provide more detail on that. But let me tell you, we are winning. We are winning big long term contracts to Canadian nuclear contract. We won this quarter a twenty year contract and over a billion Canadian annually. So, you know, it's this type of volume that we're talking about that doesn't necessarily show up in our backlog.

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Okay. That is super helpful and and helps clarify it. Appreciate that. If I go back to the Capital Markets Day about a year ago, you outlined a multiyear organic revenue growth framework, four to 6%. As we start to look to 2026, is that a reasonable starting point for the kinda true core?

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

I know there's there's gonna be moving pieces with outside of the core. But, in the is that is that the right starting point before we then adjust, those moving pieces?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Hey, Noah. I think a a couple of things. Obviously, a lot of things have changed, since, you know, August, the Capital Markets Day, but there's a lot of things that haven't changed. And the underlying strength of the business is one of them. Honestly, we have some of the revenue dynamics that we talked about earlier in response to Colin's question.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

But the mission critical advanced engineering and technology solutions that we provide to our customers every day, the diversified and differentiated position of our portfolio, which has been demonstrated through our results in FY 2025, has proven to be resilient even in times of uncertainty and the significant progress we've made taking advantage of the merger thesis, both from a strategic and financial perspective, all still hold true today. And as John said in his prepared remarks, we're more aligned than ever with global enduring trends in our customers' top priorities. And so all that to say, we remain excited about the trajectory of the business as we head into FY 2026.

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Okay. Great. Last one, back to the nuclear topic. Have you quantified or can you quantify the revenue base today from that market so that we can then, you know, have a starting point as we assess the growth there?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. So I'll just reiterate the response to Mariana's question, is, you know, roughly one third of our overall energy and environment market revenues are associated with the rest of, I'll call it, the nuclear market. That's the front end nuclear engineering, design, construction and commissioning and O and M work. You know, around $700,000,000

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Excellent. Thank you so much.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yes, of approximately 2.7.

[Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

It. Okay.

[Operator]

Thank Thank you. Next question comes from Ken Herbert with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Ken Herbert, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

Yes. Hi, good morning. I wondered if you could start off again, I appreciate again, you're not saying a lot about '26, but are there any significant recompetes we should keep in mind in the fourth quarter here or '26 as we just, again, start to think about, the the revenue build into next year?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Hey. Good morning. So as we talked about a couple different things, only one of our top 10 recompetes top 10 programs we expect to be up for recompete in f y twenty six, and there's likely that that will even be extended. But overall, the thesis of momentum holds true from this perspective and that we benefit from longer than average contract duration. And over the next few years, 10% to 15% of our revenues we expect to be up for recompete on an annual basis.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

So we feel really good about the sources of revenue as we head into FY 2026 and look forward to providing more detail, at our Q4 earnings call.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

And nothing pending in 2025?

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yes.

[Ken Herbert, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay.

[Ken Herbert, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

Perfect. Thanks. And on in the third quarter, the digital solutions segment had really nice margin expansion on the adjusted EBITDA. Is that 8% a good number moving forward and we could see some increases off of that? Or were there any sort of moving pieces in the quarter, that you'd call out?

[Ken Herbert, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

I'm just trying to get a sense moving forward for that segment in particular, how we should think about sort of margin run rate.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

Yeah. We were very pleased with the performance out of our digital solutions segment this quarter. Obviously, there's different timing things related to easy adjustments and operational performance, but they did have strong performance during the quarter. Other, you know, longer term, definitely see them headed above 8% margins, Right? And and, you know, kind of in line with our long term expectations of the business, but saw really strong growth out of our commercial digital infrastructure portfolio there, is accretive to the overall margins.

[Travis Johnson, CFO at Amentum Holdings]

So, you know, just overall really excited about where we're headed in that that part of the portfolio.

[Steve Arnette, COO at Amentum Holdings]

And just thematically to add to try to tie together at, there is a bit of a trend throughout the business for that part of the company where as we continue to develop and deploy, I'm gonna call it these digital organic digital solutions, we are finding that in some sense, it becomes almost a bit of a horizontal thread. It becomes part of every offering, whether it's a commercial or government customers, we're engineering, developing, deploying technology. And so that true advanced engineering technology solution is becoming more omnipresent in that business, and and I think that really is at the core kinda driving the incremental margin opportunity.

[Operator]

Are coming up So on the I would like to hand the call over back to Mr. John Heller. Thank you.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

Thank you, operator. To close, we're energized by our performance and by the opportunities that lie ahead of us. We've been deliberate in aligning our strategy to long cycle global enduring trends, and we're continuing to strengthen our capabilities and evolve ahead of the curve. We have the expertise to meet the mission needs of our customers, and we have positioned Omentum to capture accelerating demand and deliver long term value for our shareholders. Thank you again for your continued interest in Amentum.

[John Heller, CEO & Director at Amentum Holdings]

We look forward to updating you on our progress in the quarters ahead. Have a happy and safe summer.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Nathan Rutledge, SVP - Head of IR
• John Heller, CEO & Director
• Travis Johnson, CFO
• Steve Arnette, COO

Analysts

• Colin Canfield, Director at Cantor Fitzgerald
• Analyst
• Mariana Pérez Mora, Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Noah Poponak, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs
• Ken Herbert, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets